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Distribution of ABO and Rhesus Blood Groups in G6PD Deficient Chinese and Malay Newborns

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

N. Saha ,
B.R. Hawkins  and
H.B. Wong
N. Saha*
Affiliation:
Department of Physiology, University of Singapore, Singapore Department of Human Biology, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
B.R. Hawkins
Affiliation:
Department of Human Biology, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
H.B. Wong
Affiliation:
Department of Paediatrics, University of Singapore, Singapore
*
Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, P.O. Box 102, Khartoum, Sudan

Abstract

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The distribution of ABO blood groups was studied in 459 Chinese and 65 Malay newborns with deficiency of G6PD, and in 1181 Chinese and 535 Malay newborns with normal levels of the enzyme. Similarly, the distribution of Rhesus blood groups was studied in 248 G6PD deficient Chinese newborns and in 255 normal subjects. No association between the ABO blood groups and G6PD deficiency was observed in either Chinese or Malays. For the Rhesus system there was found to be a statistically significant decrease in the frequency of genotypes containing the complex R 1 in G6PD deficient subjects compared with that in normal subjects.

Type
Research Article
Information
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research , Volume 24 , Issue 1-2 , January 1975 , pp. 131 - 135
Copyright
Copyright © The International Society for Twin Studies 1975

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